Oracle Zero-Day Flaw Project Cancelled

Benny Folds writes "Cesar Cerrudo of Argeniss has suddenly cancelled plans to release daily zero-day flaws in Oracle databases during the first week in December. Just days before the project was due to start, Cerrudo announced that 'due to many problems,' the WoODB (Week of Oracle Database Bugs) is being scrapped. He did not elaborate on the reasons for the cancellation."

Comments

Re:With good reason

[bill_mcgonigle]

This isn't too hard to figure out. Look at the announcement retraction page. See that field of seemingly unimportant binary numbers in the background? Run it through OCR and take the digits as sets of 16-bit big-endian numbers, and you come up with the following numbers: 17,21,39,76,203,230,238,245,279. Now, look at the letters at each of those positions in the announcement and you get:

The Week of OracLe DAtabase Bugs

We aRe sad to announce that due to many pRoblems the Week of Oracle Database Bugs gets suspended.

We would like to ask for apologizes to people who supported this and were reallY excited with the idea, alSo we woUld likE to thank the people who contributeD with Oracle vulnerabilities.

Coincidence? Yeah, sure.